Word: headroom
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Just over 1 in. longer than A.M.C.'s Gremlin and designed with a sloping front that cuts aerodynamic drag, the Pacer has more headroom in back than a Continental Mark IV. The door on the passenger side is 4 in. longer than the driver's-an innovation aimed at facilitating entry to the back seat. The car's most striking feature is an abundance of glass: it has more window surface than the Cadillac Eldorado. But its main selling points will be low cost (base price: $3,299) and high fuel economy (25 m.p.g. on the highway...
...were warped to fit the ship." In fact, some of them were. In many a country town, an old sailor was readily identifiable by his severe stoop, the result of spending years in the orlop (overlap) deck, which sometimes offered no more than four feet of headroom...
...preferred the seating arrangement in Ford wagons (three forward-facing seats) to G.M.'s arrangement (two forward and one rear-facing seat), G.M. brass ordered Buick designers to match Ford's design. Ford was able to place its third seat over the rear axle and still leave headroom because it uses low slung leaf springs. But all G.M. autos use space-consuming coil springs on the rear axle and, to make things even more difficult, G.M. insisted on a fully upholstered rear seat. To provide the necessary headroom, Buick tried raising the roof, but that made...
...quirk of the year would probably go to Buick and Oldsmobile. When they tried to put a forward-facing third seat in the rear of their Special and F85 station wagons, the seat wound up perched on top of the rear axle-up so high that there was not headroom enough for a midget. General Motors' solution: raising half of the roof into a vista dome, a move that gives Buick and Oldsmobile the distinction of having the first station wagons styled like a Scenicruiser Greyhound...
...military and civil defense road system for use in case of war. the supposed defense highways have proved somewhat indefensible: more than 2,000 bridges and underpasses have been built with a 14-ft. minimum clearance, despite the fact that much military equipment requires a minimum of 17 ft. headroom. After nine months of conferences and surveys, the Pentagon settled for a 16-ft. clearance, and the highway builders ordered reconstruction of the low bridges at a cost of more than $700 million...